Thursday, August 14, 2014

Autumn Dean/ Sue Fuller

She had many talents natural and
taught. She truly had an amazing and long career that span many different art
forms and processes. To call her anything less than amazing is just not right.

What
grabs my attention most is her prints from the 1940’s and her wall pieces that
were woven string on pegs or nails. She studied broad range of art types and
processes even some less often used such as glass blowing. She even used light
and neon light as a material and then moved on to plastics. She in many ways
was ahead of her time as far as her ability to multitask.

Her
schools were top schools in art and other subjects and gave her a large range
of creative freedom. She has also been awarded the Tiffany Foundation Grant,
Fellowship. She then taught and taught with Hans Hofmann, Josef Albers, and
Stanley William Hayter. This all laid an amazing academic groundwork for the
rest of her life. Her abstract expressionism work is interesting in how some of
her work is rigid and literallyon
a grid system as in her string works and then colorful and a more random form
of her expression that is mixed with her passion and emotion. Her prints are
sometimes more lifelike and image based. Her life in New York was a part of her
work as well, like the strings it is tangled at times and mixed with emotion.